1. Data: How to Read It How to Use It 5 Printed with permission from the following National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research sites involved in the Agrarian Lands in Transition (http://ces.asu.edu/agtrans/) grant (#DEB-0216560): CAP, CWT, HFR, KBS, KNZ, SGS

2. Here is a series of pictures displaying central Arizona’s land use over time. Describe what happened to agriculture and desert land as people moved in. Regional land use, 1912 Regional land use, 1934 Regional land use, 1955 Regional land use, 1975 Regional land use, 1995 Regional land use, 2000 Printed with permission from the following National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research sites involved in the Agrarian Lands in Transition (http://ces.asu.edu/agtrans/) grant (#DEB-0216560): CAP, CWT, HFR, KBS, KNZ, SGS

3. Create a line or bar graph displaying the data below. 19121934195519751995 Agriculture253,422 (9%)442,624 (16%)391,001 (14%)453,739 (16%)319,371 (11%) Urban4,940 (<1%)11,609 (<1%)75,582 (3%)185,497 (7%)508,326 (18%) Desert2,570,282 (91%)2,359,097 (83%)2,327,728 (82%)2,096,042 (74%)1,876,953 (66%) Recreation015,067 (1%)34,333 (1%)93,366 (3%)123,994 (4%) Printed with permission from the following National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research sites involved in the Agrarian Lands in Transition (http://ces.asu.edu/agtrans/) grant (#DEB-0216560): CAP, CWT, HFR, KBS, KNZ, SGS

4. Based on the chart and maps of Arizona, what do you think Central Arizona will be like in 20 years? 50 years? Printed with permission from the following National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research sites involved in the Agrarian Lands in Transition (http://ces.asu.edu/agtrans/) grant (#DEB-0216560): CAP, CWT, HFR, KBS, KNZ, SGS